Blue Skies, Palm Trees, West Coast Air And Lizard Tails

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Blue Skies, Palm Trees, West Coast Air And Lizard Tails

     Although it took a couple of visits to Los Angeles for the place to grow on me after my first trip to L. A. close to decade-and-a-half ago, in truth I've always been, and continue to be, enchanted by the palm trees and bright blue skies that grace that part of the country,

...and can make even a supermarket parking lot or strip mall look rather idyllic.

    And I never tire of that first moment of stepping outside of the Los Angeles airport and catching my first glimpse of the palms off in the distance,

​...and realizing that the enchantment has not yet worn off.

      And I still swear that West Coast air smells differently from East Coast air - in a good way - though I can't exactly describe how.     
      After our recent arrival at LAX we Ubered - Los Angeles having caved to the might of the Uber behemoth and now allows Ubers, along with taxis, to ply their service at the airport, which is fine by moi - to our Los Angeles destination.

     The house where we stayed also smelled to me like the West Coast, mayhaps because here one could keep the doors open all day without any bugs flying in,

...though they do get an occasional visit from a small lizard, or an occasional still-moving lizard's tail. When a predator - in this case the resident cat - grabs one of these L.A. lizards by the tail, the tail detaches and continues wriggling for some time, probably to convince the predator that it has the critter, rather than just the critter's tail, in its mouth. Here is the resident lizard tail-catching cat, showing her excitement at our arrival on her turf.